Phil Libin Appointed to Identive Group Board of Directors

Identive Group, Inc. announced that Phil Libin has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Libin is CEO of Evernote, a fast-growing consumer Internet company that enables users to capture, store and locate information, photos, experiences or ideas on a variety of mobile devices and platforms.

“I am very pleased to welcome Phil to the Board of Directors of Identive,” said Ayman S. Ashour, chairman and CEO of Identive Group. “Phil’s diverse experience with mobile platforms, identity management and the consumer sector gives him an understanding of how these areas intersect and how emerging technologies are creating entirely new opportunities and challenges. Demand is growing for consumer applications that utilize mobile devices for payment, information and everyday transactions in a secure way. Phil brings substantial expertise to augment Identive’s focus on secure ID as we expand our offerings for the consumer market.”

“In the next few years, the ID industry will need to undergo dramatic change as a result of the commonplace availability of RFID technologies in smart phones and other consumer devices and rapidly changing consumer behavior,” Libin said. “I believe Identive is in position to create many valuable new solutions at all points of the technology value chain. I look forward to working with the Identive team as a member of the Board of Directors during this exciting time.”

Libin is an entrepreneur and executive who has led three Internet companies from the very beginning to proven commercial success, and helped several others through rapid growth. Prior to joining Evernote in May 2007, he founded and served as president of CoreStreet, a provider of smart credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations throughout the world, where he remained on the Board of Directors until its acquisition by ActivIdentity in 2009.

Previously, Libin founded and served as CEO of Engine 5, a Boston-based Internet software development company. In 2000, Engine 5 was acquired by Vignette Corporation, a provider of internet content management software, where Mr. Libin subsequently served as principal architect and chief technologist for applications.